just checking in

hi, everyone

friends,

I’m not ready to return to writing, but I did want to take a moment to say thank you to the thousands of people who have posted, commented, private messaged, texted, and phoned to offer condolences over Wednesday morning’s passing of my wife Claudia.

it pains me that I can only reply to the smallest fraction of these messages — but I want you to know that I’m reading them all, appreciating them all, and I love you all. I am blessed to be surrounded by an amazing, caring community.

thank you all.

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as I counsel you all at the bottom of every one of these posts, ‘practice self-care.’

well, writing is my self-care — and the sooner I can get back it, the better.

so let me dip my toe into the water now — because this wouldn’t be a real post unless it had some serious Donnyloathing in it, so here we go.

on Wednesday, Preznit Fuckwit signed an executive order directing the military to purchase billions of dollars’ worth of power from coal plants.

to show their appreciation, industry lobbyists gave Donny a fucking coal trophy — as one does, when one is dealing with an overgrown child.

coal industry fuckface: “to show our appreciation, the trophy says ‘the undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal.’ thank you, sir.”

oh, please. it’s more like Donny is the undisputed champion of fucking everything straight into the shitter. great, let’s reverse decades of environmental progress, and Make America’s Air Unbreathable Again. awesome.

if Donny had the slightest bit of self-awareness, he’d be embarrassed to be this much of an easily-manipulated shitwit. this is the new game that anyone with an evil agenda of their own can play. need Donny to do you a solid? just gin up some laughably bogus trophy and hand it to the numbskull. he’ll be putty in your hands.

as always, the entire world is laughing their asses off at us — when they’re not cringing in terror.

can we — at long last — skip right to the end? can we award Donny the Best Inmate Ever Prize and chuck him the fuck into prison?

and while we’re on the subject, where is my Nobel Grievingest Widower Ever Prize?

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friends, thank you for hanging in there with me. I’ll be back to writing real soon. I promise.

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here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.

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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.